Richard
Stengel, managing editor of Time Magazine, in October 2006 wrote an
essay promoting America�s population growth, �We need to continue
growing but in smarter more sustainable ways.�

A
picture of Stengel wearing a suit and tie along with a smile accompanied
his essay �Tracking America�s Journey.� He looks intelligent, but
his words betray his understanding of America�s population dilemma.
Stengel illustrates 20th century thinking in the harsh realities of
the 21st century. In other words, he�s clueless as to what he�s talking
about. However, he looks good, so millions of people think he knows
what he�s promoting. He does not!

Albert
Einstein warned, �The problems in the world today are so enormous
they cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created
them.�

In
his essay, Stengel illustrated our glorious past population growth
and projected our adding 100 million people in three decades. He said,
�Unlike Japan and Europe, the U.S. is still growing at a healthy clip.�
He neglected to state that millions of those immigrants flee from
overpopulated countries that can�t feed their populations. That phenomenon
fuels our population growth.

Stengel
neglected to understand that you can�t maintain a �healthy� and �sustainable�
growing population ad infinitum. The two stand diametrically opposed
to one another. Stengel subscribes to antiquated 20th century thinking.
He presents well, but he�s totally out of touch with the consequences
of what he promotes.

His
kind of thinking drives California�s current 37.5 million onward to
79 million in 40 years. Stengel�s thinking adds 12 million people
to Texas in 18 years.

Let�s
get down to brass tacks on the absurdity of unending growth and sustainability!

Dr.
Albert Bartlett, physics professor at the University of Colorado,
and brilliant demographic expert wrote, �Arithmetic, Population and
Energy.� You may obtain a copy of the video by calling 303-492-2670
or emailing Mr. Herb Rodriguez at herb.rodriguez@colorado.edu That
video would cause Time Editor Richard Stengel to write a different
essay on America�s future. Why? He could no longer romanticize. He
couldn�t write glowingly about the future with an added 100 million
people. He couldn�t obfuscate the facts we face as civilization headed
for an unsustainable future. Dr. Bartlett writes:

THE
MEANING OF SUSTAINABILITY

First,
we must accept the idea that "sustainable" has to mean �for an unspecified
long period of time.�

Second,
we must acknowledge the mathematical fact that steady growth gives
very large numbers in modest periods of time. For example, a population
of 10,000 people growing at 7 percent per year will become a population
of 10,000,000 people in just 100 years.

From
these two statements we can see that the term "sustainable growth"
implies "increasing endlessly," which means that the growing quantity
will tend to become infinite in size. The finite size of resources,
ecosystems, the environment, and the Earth, lead one to the most fundamental
truth of sustainability:

When
applied to material things, the term "sustainable growth" is an oxymoron.

SUSTAINABILITY

The
terms "sustainable" and "sustainability" burst into the global lexicon
in the 1980s as the electronic news media made people increasingly
aware of the growing global problems of overpopulation, drought, famine,
and environmental degradation that had been the subject of �Limits
to Growth� in the early 1970s.

A
great increase of awareness came with the publication of the report
of the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development,
the Brundtland Report, which is available in bookstores under the
title �Our Common Future.�

In
graphic and heart-wrenching detail, the report places before the reader
the enormous problems and suffering that are being experienced with
growing intensity every day throughout the underdeveloped world. In
the foreword, before there was any definition of "sustainable," there
was the ringing call:

�What
is needed now is a new era of economic growth - growth that is forceful
and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable.�

One
should be struck by the fact that here is a call for "economic growth"
that is "sustainable." One has to ask if it is possible to have an
increase in economic activity without having increases in the rates
of consumption of nonrenewable resources. If so, under what conditions
can this happen? Are we moving toward those conditions today? What
is meant by the undefined terms, �socially sustainable� and �environmentally
sustainable?� Can we have one without the other?

As
we have seen, these two concepts of �growth� and �sustainability"
are in conflict with one another, yet here we see the call for both.
The use of the word "forceful" would seem to imply "rapid," but if
this is the intended meaning, it would just heighten the conflict.

Thus
sustainable development can only be pursued if population size and
growth are in harmony with the changing productive potential of the
ecosystem.

One
begins to feel uneasy. �Population size and growth� are vaguely identified
as possible problem areas, but we don�t know what the Commission means
by the phrase "in harmony with...?" It can mean anything. By page
11 the Commission acknowledges that population growth is a serious
problem, but then:

The
issue is not just numbers of people, but how those numbers relate
to available resources. Urgent steps are needed to limit extreme rates
of population growth.

Once
you read or watch Dr. Bartlett�s presentation, you will be more in
touch with reality than Time�s Editor Richard Stengel. There�s no
way we need to or can add 100 million people to the United States
by 2040, which is 34 years from now.

I�ve
seen Dr. Bartlett give his presentation personally. There�s no dancing
around his facts, figures and harsh reality check. In my world travels,
I�ve witnessed population growth�s worst outcomes. America already
walks on the thin ice edge of our own demise with 300 million people.
We either stabilize our U.S. population, or we become victims of our
own numbers.

We
cannot sustain unlimited growth. We cannot break the laws of nature
as to �carrying capacity.� We cannot add 40 million more people to
California and think we can provide water to drink, for crops, for
animals, habitat for all other life and room to live a decent life.
We cannot be THAT stupid, but, as of this writing, and in concert
with Time Editor Richard Stengel, we are!

What
to do? We must enact a 10 year moratorium on all immigration. We must
create a National Population Policy. The human race can�t keep burning
80 million barrels of oil daily and maintain arrogance that all is
well. We must develop alternative energy at breakneck speed. We must
educate ourselves faster than we procreate ourselves.

"Unbeknownst
to many Americans, there is overwhelming consensus among scientists
that we are very close to reaching a point of no turning back on global
warming, which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. We are approaching
a point at which all of the following will become unavoidable: massive
desertification, rising sea level, explosive growth of insect populations,
widespread habitat destruction, mass extinctions, mass migrations
(including of humans), the disappearance of sea life, and in all likelihood
wars over drinking water that will make the wars over oil look civilized."
--David Swanson

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�Exponential
growth is adding one billion people to our planet every 12 years.
Ninety percent of this growth stems from the developing world. The
consequences are grave. Environmental destruction escalates as more
people compete for water, land, clean air, food, fuel and amenities.
Civil conflicts and ethnic wars roil societies as Balkanized people
attempt to gain advantage through resource grabs at the expense of
neighbors. Millions of the dispossessed are forced to migrate�straining
the infrastructure and good will of richer nations.� --William B.
Dickinson author of the �The Biocentric Imperative�

What
you can do for a better future for your country:

A
republican form of government is not a spectator sport. It means you
must jump in, roll up you sleeves and take personal and collective
action. Of course, you could let a dictator take over and do everything
for you, but that path would give you Cuba, China, North Korea and
other unsavory examples.

To
stop Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from giving an amnesty, take action.
Call for a full 10 year moratorium.

1,
America cannot support another 100 million people added to our country
in 34 years, i.e., water crisis, resource depletion, air pollution,
gridlock, loss of quality of life, etc. 2, America cannot support lawbreakers being given citizenship.
3, America must maintain our English language. 4, America wants only legal immigrants who play by the rules
and speak English. 5, America's working poor deserve a chance at jobs taken by
illegals 6, America already has too many people and I support a 10 year
moratorium on all immigration. 7, Americans must maintain our schools for our children. 8, We can no longer tolerate 350,000 birthright citizens (anchor
babies) annually that subtract from our own citizens. 9, Attrition through enforcement by stopping their ability
to wire money home, obtain rental housing and jobs. 10, An amnesty failed in 1986, and it will only be worse today.
We're being displaced out of our jobs and out of our own country.
Call with relentless and never-give-up passion.

To
stop illegal aliens in your community, you may follow the course of
action by Mayor Louis Barletta of Hazelton, PA. He offers a bomb proof
ordinance that takes business licenses away from those who hire illegals.
He legally halts landlords from renting to illegals. Without work
and without housing, illegals cannot stay in your community. Check
out his web site for instructions: SmallTownDefenders.com

Wooldridge
presents a 45 minute program to colleges, high schools, civic clubs,
church groups and political clubs across America titled: �COMING POPULATION
CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.� Go to his website for
further information on booking the program. www.frostywooldridge.com

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; �STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE�; �IMMIGRATION�S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES�; �MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND�A TEEN NOVEL�; �BICYCLING AROUND THE
WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION�; �AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTIA.�
His next book: �TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.� He lives
in Denver, Colorado.